Hmm, interesting to take new article and one from a bit back;
https://news.yahoo.com/facial-expressio ... 12477.html
Washington Post
Facial expressions may be an unreliable way to read emotions
Marlene Cimons, Special To The Washington PostFri, December 16, 2022 at 10:34 AM CST·5 min read
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We use our faces to communicate, but our facial expressions may not always come across the way we think they do. And we may be just as wrong when reading the faces of others, a study says.
"Many people think they know what other people's faces should look like when they are happy, sad, angry or afraid," said Nicola Binetti, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, and a co-author of the study. "We found this is not always the case." ...
and,
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -emotions/Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal EmotionsThe emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin’s ideas
By Lisa Feldman Barrett on April 27, 2022
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This debate is not just academic; the outcome has serious consequences. Today you can be turned down for a job because a so-called emotion-reading system watching you on camera applied artificial intelligence to evaluate your facial movements unfavorably during an interview. In a U.S. court of law, a judge or jury may sometimes hand down a harsher sentence, even death, if they think a defendant’s face showed a lack of remorse. Children in preschools across the country are taught to recognize smiles as happiness, scowls as anger and other expressive stereotypes from books, games and posters of disembodied faces. And for children on the autism spectrum, some of whom have difficulty perceiving emotion in others, these teachings do not translate to better communication.
So who is right? The answer involves an unwitting physician, a scientific error and a century-long misinterpretation of Darwin’s writing. Ironically, his own observations offer a powerful resolution that is transforming the modern understanding of emotion.
The assumption of universal facial expressions can be traced back to several sources, most notably a set of photographs by 19th-century French physician Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne. In the early days of photography, Duchenne electrically stimulated people’s facial muscles and photographed the contractions.
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